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title: What is OpenStatus?
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OpenStatus is an open-source website and API monitoring service with a beautiful
status page and incident management.

We allow to monitor the uptime and performance of your websites and APIs from
multiple locations around the world and notify you when something goes wrong.

## Trying OpenStatus

The easiest way to quickly try the app is to signup on
[www.openstatus.dev](https://www.openstatus.dev)

The signup is free.

## Getting Started

There are three ways to get started with OpenStatus.

- **Cloud**: the fastest and easiest way to try the app (it's free)
- **Local**: if you're a developer and would like to experiment or contribute to
  the app
- **Self-hosting**: if you want greater control over your data and want to run
  the app on your own server
